Orange Broadband - anyone a happy customer?

[StephenCWLL]

Hi,

I'm thinking of going with Orange Broadband (Unlimited £19.99) as the deal is pretty good. I've searched the web and have found many unhappy Orange Broadband customers. I'm wondering if Orange really are that bad or that people only submit reviews when they have bad experiences.

Any happy Orange Broadband Customers out there?

Thanks,
Stephen.

[fat jez]

Put it this way, I know a lot of Orange staff that won't use them...

Cheers,
Stephen

[jonnyniner]

I know of three people who have been or are on Orange BB...they either got out or want out...

sometimes its better to pay a little bit for a quality service and I suspect this is one of those occasions...

[x64united]

I would say to have a look at eclipse internet, very good prices. I havent used them though, just thought a good deal!

http://www.eclipse.net.uk/index.cfm?...comparison_res

[jackvdbuk]

im on orange (since freeserve, then wanadoo then ORANGE ) tbh there fine... i download way over the bandwidth limit (iirc its 6gb for me) they dont do or say anything... however there are some times theres no conenctions, as in have ot weait couple of days till its back online... but thats rare like every 5-6 months? tbh id just go with some other ISP that the hexus dudes are suggesting (only reason im still with ornage is cos of my dad )

[Smirnoff]

im on orange (since freeserve, then wanadoo then ORANGE ) tbh there fine... i download way over the bandwidth limit (iirc its 6gb for me) they dont do or say anything... however there are some times theres no conenctions, as in have ot weait couple of days till its back online... but thats rare like every 5-6 months? tbh id just go with some other ISP that the hexus dudes are suggesting (only reason im still with ornage is cos of my dad )

If your happy with having to wait a couple of days to get back on line then fair enough who am I to argue? But I wouldn't be happy and I seriously doubt most other people would be either, no matter wether it was every 5-6 months or 5-6 yrs

[jackvdbuk]

true... well i cant change ISP can i 'orange is fine enough' bla bla bla etc... get the picture?

do say what provider you are going for tho!

also has anyone actually been fined/warened about going over their download limit?

[Smirnoff]

I'm with BT-Yahoo at the moment complete with home-hub. Was with AO Hell but got shut of it cos of persistant connection problems. As for being fined....not yet but I suppose there's time yet, lol. Although as far as I'm aware a lot of ISPs will allow you to periodically exceed your limit, providing you dont go too far over, without penalising you.

[slugs]

Eclipse are traffic shaping and completely killing speeds. I think it will be the same will all isp's soon enough. ive just "upgraded" to 8mb. what a mistake im getting less than 400kb/s now

[vrykyl]

with orange here - no complaints so far, but only been with them a month... paying for mobile anyway so figured might as well talk BB on top - pay an extra £5 pm to have it 'uncapped' (40gb) and speeds arent to bad - time will tell